The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-08-12
MOST DISASTROUS
Of All Railway Wrecks.
THE DEAD NUMBER ONE
HUNDRED AND FOUR Z
TEEN. :.
Several Hundred Wounded and
Dying Horrible Tale
Of Suffering,
The Bulgarian Turkish RUS
sian ! fair.
TIE ILLINOIS HORROR.
United Press Dispatches TO Herald.

United Press Dispatches to Herald.
CHATswoRTrI, ILL.,, Aug. livery
few people in Chatsworth slept last
night, and lights which shonc through
the windows of nearly every house
told their own story Of the faithful
ministrations of the villagers to the
injured and dying. Scores of resi-
dents and strangers stood ali night at
the street corners and at the depot
and talked over the terrible event
with batcd breath. AT the depot n
couple of men were busy enclosing
the remains of the recognized dead in
the rude pine boxes, aud the noise of
hammers beat on the ears and min
gled with the groans of the wounded,
who were being cared for in the
little town hall across the track.
Here the scene was such as to melt the
stoutest hearts. On nearly two score
of mattresses, some resting on chairs,
others Oh the floor, were men, women
and children in various degrees of
suffering and torture. On one cot,
side by side, with their arms resting
across each ether, were Robert Iim-
norman and his wife, of Peoria.
The sufi'erings of each were cxcrucia.
ting, and Mr.. Ximinerman's faithful
brother, who had hurried to the
scene TO do the best he could TO re-
lieve their agony, was forced every
few moments, tc seek the open air to
relieve his own pent up emotion.
Near by was little, five year old, Josie
b. Gladdin, of Harkers Cor
ner, near Peoria, who was
brought here in carriage by her
father from Piper City, at O'Clock
this morning she was suffering from
internal injuries as well as contutions
of the lower limbs, but tnevcr whimp-
or came from her lips, aud she smiled
swccily as the nurse whispered her
words OF encouragement. "She's the
brick of al" said the doctor. Upon the
platform where the local solons were
wont TO hold 'th, pretty Lollie Val
dejo, of Peoria,lay i'll what DIR. Ballard,
who was standing over her for hours,
thought were her last agonies, she was
perfectly conscious, and between her
gasps for breath told how she had
all over Europe in safety, on
" TO come face TO face with death II
few miles from her own home. Her
mother lay dead across the street, but
despite her pleadings iornews no one
had the heart to tell her the dreadful
truth Josie Blondin was cnroute to
Canada to visit her mother, taking
her two little girls with her, she had
just got to the rear car to get them
uFlnk Oh WulcI Nutn tiC tibbu CuiilC.
She has not seen her children
since, and is nearly wild
with excitement about them,
Notwithstanding her own terrible in
iuries and the intense pain she suffers.
She was taken out of the wreck crush
ed almost shapeless. Josie was found
wcdged between the timbers of the
the other child escaped with
4 bruise. The united press cores
pondent went from Forrest to Chats
worth at 2 o'clock this morning on a
special train of caboose and freight
cars, filed with officers. III. A. Mcclure
Of Keithsburg, was one of the passen-
gers. his wife and child had parted
with him "a hours before, and were
going to TO New York. lie reached
to find the couple stretch
ed upon the floor of the school house.